Figure 4

Pyrosequencing of brittle star transcriptome. (A) After cleaning and trimming, 354,586 reads totaled 75,031,136 bp. Approximately 3/4 had lengths between 200 and 300 bp. Less than one percent were longer than 300 bp. (B) A total of 14,261 contigs were assembled, with a combined length of 5,488,581 bp. Median length increased by 23% over that of the unassembled reads. Roughly two-thirds of the reads had lengths between 100 and 400 bp. Four percent were longer than 1,000 bp, creating a long right-hand tail to the distribution. (C) The number of times a given nucleotide position is present in the reads used to assemble the contigs ranged from 1x to 8549.4x. Eighty-one percent were represented one to five times, while less than one percent had more than 100× coverage.